y it goes to the question of, does hagel see the u.s. military, a strong u.s. military as a force for good, for leadership in this world? and you get the sense from this and his comments, ala bob woodward and the "washington post" and the exchange he had with president obama, he doesn't, he sees it as a new world order and we are, leading from behind and he didn't exactly say it and it comes when leon panetta points out the threat of the man-pads, the anti-aircraft attack missiles that are coming out of iran, that we need to intercept and, it there are dangers in places like that, al qaeda expanding in north africa and it is a dangerous world and you can't put you a pause button on it. >> chris: let me be blatantly political with you. what is the smart play for senate republicans? should they filibuster hagel -- and we should point out we can't find any history of a top presidential cabinet appointment ever being filibustered by either party. should they try to filibuster him or say, you want him, you got him? >> i expect, having talked to many folks up on capi